Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood. in a new archival wrap. First US Edition stated, 2011 Doubleday. First Printing with full number line.
The book is in Near Fine condition with bright boards with a few spots, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, no edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The illustrated end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, the price intact on the front flap and a small crease on the rear flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as “science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer.
In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood’s key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between “science fiction” proper, and “speculative fiction,” as well as between “sword and sorcery/fantasy” and “slipstream fiction.” For all readers who have loved The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.
Ships promptly in a manila envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
